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Muir, Brian Thomas Gregory

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — Brian Muir
Date18-Jan-2007
HearingCouncil of the Law Society of New South Wales
OutcomeSuspension of Practising Certificate $0.00 About ​ About the OLSC The Commissioner History Mission statement Structure Contact ​ Contact the OLSC Give us your feedback: online surveys Access to information (GIPAA) Community information ​ Information for lawyers Fact sheets FAQs Other regulatory and complaint-handling organisations Contact LawAccess NSW for legal information " You and Your Lawyer", Hot ​​Topics 78 Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC), State Library of NSW​ , provides access to information about the law in NSW regarding your lawyer Privacy Copyright and Disclaimer Website accessibility

Allegation / charges

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">1. Breached Section 61 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - handling of trust moneys</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2. Breached Section 62 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - keeping of trust accounts</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">3. Breached Section 255 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 - holding, disbursing and accounting for trust moneys</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">4. Breached Section 264 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 - failure to keep proper trust records in relation to trust money received</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">5. Breached Section 117 of the Legal Profession Act 1994 in that he negotiated a mortgage advance to MxChange Pty Ltd.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">6. Breached Clauses 72(2)(b), 68(4), 69(4), 70(9) and 80(8) of the Legal Profession Regulation, 2005 and the equivalent Clauses under the Legal Profession Regulation, 2002</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">7. Failed to properly secure his client’s trust funds</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">8. Failed to respond to correspondence</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">9. Delayed in the administration of an Estate</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">10. Failed to comply with the requirements of Section 67(2)(a) and (b) of the Legal Profession Act, 2004</span></p>

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The decision found the practitioner breached multiple provisions relating to trust money handling, trust account records, mortgage financing, securing client trust funds, responding to correspondence, and delay in estate administration. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction details are contained in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]

Duties engaged

Other decisions involving this respondent

  • [2008] NSWADT 286 2008-10-22 · OLSC · Australia — New South Wales · Costs Removal of practitioner's name from the Roll of Local…
  • [2004] NSWADT 61 2004-03-29 · OLSC · Australia — New South Wales · Costs Fine Reprimand $2,500.00 Proceedings Instituted

Matched by respondent name — may include a different person with the same name.

Documents

No documents recorded.

Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=885ba7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e